Wisconsin Legislature Moves Toward Saturday Recess
Madison AP Wisconsin lawmakers advanced priority education bills as a six and a half month session dragged toward a Saturday deadline for adjourning. The Assembly Speaker cited a tentative October return while four education bills went to Governor Knowles for immediate action. The package includes $2.4 million for private college grants, creation of vocational district boundaries by 1970, reorganization of the State Coordinating Committee for Higher Education, and tuition grants up to 500 per year for residents studying programs not offered locally. Senate amendments to the vocational district bill were accepted in the Assembly. a separate provision raises the mandatory school age to 13 in areas with vocational schools. The plan allows community colleges without liberal arts requirements to offer transferable courses.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly
Robert Huber
D-West Allis
Warren P. Knowles
State Coordinating Committee For Higher Education
Senate
Coordinating Committee
Medicare Bill Set to Be Signed at Truman Library
President Johnson will sign the health care bill at the Truman Library in Independence after flying from Washington. The 133 page measure creates hospital coverage under Social Security for the elderly, offers a low cost plan for doctors bills, and raises Social Security taxes to fund most of the program. Johnson and Truman will meet privately after the ceremony, with several congressmen accompanying Johnson to Kansas City.
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Washington
Johnson
Arti
Missouri
Harry S. Toman
Truman
Congress
Kansas City
Truman Library
Independence
High Court May Receive Hoffa's Case
Ohio AP The 6th Circuit upheld Teamsters President James R. Hoffa's conviction for jury tampering. He may seek rehearing and then take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary. Hoffa and three associates were convicted March 4, 1964, in Chattanooga. Hoffa sentenced to eight years and a $10,000 fine. others got four years.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
U.S. Supreme Court
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Appeals Court
Supreme Court
Hoffa
U.S. District Court
Chattanooga
Tenn
Giant Space Bird in Orbit at Cape Kennedy Launch
The Saturn 1 rocket completed a flawless 10th flight by placing Pegasus 3 in a 330 mile high orbit. The 23,100 pound satellite extended two winglike projections to 96 feet, gathering data on meteoroids and offering a potential for future astronauts to recover metal plates for study. NASA notes the mission fit the ongoing high program and sets stage for Saturn 1B next year.
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Gemini
Pegasus 3
Earth
Pegasus
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Saturn 1
Americas Missilemen
Daring Escape Succeeds With Simplest Tools
Heinz Holzapfel 33 an economist from Leipzig and his wife Jutta 32 and their year old son Guenter escaped East to West Berlin by a homemade cable harness from the roof of a guarded East German government building near the five story House of Ministries. They planned the escape for a year and a half and used a hammer cord and a bicycle wheel axle as simple tools.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Heinz Holzapfel
Leipzig
Jutta
Guenter
West Berlin
House of Ministries
Willie Stoph
East
Holzapfel
Guerrillas Strike Regional Training Center Near Saigon
Viet Cong forces attacked a government training center 5 miles southwest of Saigon, reporting heavy casualties. Estimates ranged from 125 to 500 guerrillas using 57mm rifles and machine guns, with a demolition team attempting to hit an ammo dump but failing to reach it. A bridge near Tan An was destroyed and Can Lanh shelled, with a wounded woman and two children. The 17th Airborne Brigade resumed sweeping southeast of Saigon with limited contact, finding one guerrilla dead and another wounded.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Tan An
Cao Lanh
Can Lanh
17Th Airborne Brigade
Finger Is Put On Slayer Of Young Farmer
An Arizona farm worker was named as the shooter of a Montello farmer slain along a highway. Rogelio Buhat, 29, of Phoenix, was bound over to Circuit Court for trial on a first degree murder charge after a preliminary hearing. Richard Castillo, 19, testified he watched Buhat fire three shots at Peter Stewart, who was found wounded fatally July 16. Castillo said Buhat admitted the shooting in a statement after arrest.
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Montello
Arizona
Rogelio Buhat
Phoenix
Richard Castillo
Yuma
Ariz
Buhat
Peter Stewart
Stewart
Columbia County
Robert Hamele
el Paso
Tex
Governors and Hatfield weigh Viet Nam policy
Governors briefed on Johnson Viet Nam plan as Hatfield remains cautious. Pentagon plans a super-ready Reserve and possible partial callup. troop levels may rise from 125,000 toward 290,000 by year end. Russell pins 300,000 as a ceiling. U Thant seeks negotiations with Johnson urging early end to hostilities. Ambassador Goldberg delivered Thant’s reply to Washington. Maritime strike principals vow continued ship availability for supplies to Viet Nam.
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Washington
Johnson
Oregon
Mark O. Hatfield
Hatfield
Pentagon
U.S
Richard 8. Russell
Dga
Senate Armed Services Committee
U.N
U Thant
Viet Nam
Thant
Arthur J. Goldberg
Crane Accident Kills Neenah Man at Church Site
A 26-year-old Neenah man was fatally injured when a crane section he was dismantling toppled, pinning him at the St. Therese Catholic Church youth center building on West Wisconsin Avenue in Appleton. Coroner Bernard H. Kemps said the death was almost instant and the man’s identity was being withheld pending next of kin notification.
Conferees Reach Vote Rights Accord
Washington AP reports Senate and House conferees reached a compromise on the voting rights bill. The agreement suspends literacy tests and allows federal voter registration in much of the South to protect Black citizens’ rights. The measure trims a House poll tax ban but strengthens findings that voting denial by payment is illegal. The deal also permits non English education in flag schools for voting, aiding Spanish speaking Puerto Ricans in New York City.
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Washington
Senate House
South
Johnson
Congress
Selma
Ala
Senate
House
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Virginia
New York City
Road Building Plan Favored by Assembly Committee
The Assembly Highways Committee unanimously recommended passage of an accelerated highway building program similar to Project 66. The plan would let the state form highway corporations to borrow about 18 million for early interstate construction and 15 million annually for 10 years for freeway and arterial development. Tax funding would be via anticipated revenues, not gas taxes. Governor Knowles pressed for quick approval as a must before session end, citing safer roads and economic stimulus. Opposition questioned the borrowing limit and constitutional debt constraints.
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Assembly Highways Committee
Warren P. Knowles
State Highway Commission
Bakke
Gov. Knowles
F Civic
Zovernmenta DS Am Superior
Miorg
Hayward
Beloit
Milwaukee
la Crose
Froehtich
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